Senior Business Analyst

ScottishPower; Cambuslang; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days annual leave

Holiday Purchase – extra annual leave

Share Schemes

Payroll Giving and Charity Matched

Technology Vouchers

Electric Vehicle Schemes

Cycle to Work and Transport Loans

Healthcare options including dental/PM

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Savesmart financial wellbeing support

Job summary

ScottishPower in Cambuslang is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to strengthen regulatory reporting and commercial performance. You will lead annual cost and output reporting, ensure accuracy and timely submissions, and provide insights to senior management.

Working with cross-functional teams, you’ll develop management information, cost analyses and support business planning, while driving process improvements and compliance with RIGs and DAGs.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accountancy/Finance/Economics or equivalent.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills.
• Experience in preparing reports and presentations for senior management.
• Experience in delivering projects with multiple milestones.
• Numerically articulate with strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the delivery of annual regulatory cost and output reporting submissions with accuracy and timeliness.
• Produce management information, cost and economic analyses and support business planning.
• Assist in preparing presentations and reports for senior leadership to convey regulatory performance and business challenges.
• Drive continuous improvement by enhancing processes and ensuring compliance with RIGs/DAGs; deliver training and awareness across the business.
• Support production of commercial reporting and governance activities to strengthen regulatory capability.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Project management

Numerical proficiency

Problem solving

Education

Accountancy/Finance/Economics degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Help us create a better future, quicker

Senior Business Analyst

Cambuslang

Salary From £55,000 Plus Benefits

Flexible Working Pattern

The role of the Senior Business Analyst sits within the SPT P&R department reporting to the Regulatory Operations Manager. They are primarily responsible for assessing and supporting the wider SPT business in delivery of regulatory requirements as part of T2 & T3 delivery.

This is achieved through the provision of regulatory and commercial guidance, governance, and analysis to support project and operations delivery. In particular, the terms of alignment with regulatory allowance and reporting requirements to ensure accurate reporting of cost and volume performance.

The Senior Data Analyst will be working in conjunction with SPT project teams and business units, as well as the wider SPEN business that supports the technology and governance of SPT financial and regulatory processes.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a high-impact role at the heart of SPT’s regulatory reporting and commercial performance activities. You will lead and support the delivery of annual regulatory cost and output reporting submissions, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely reporting, while working closely with teams across the business to provide key performance insights and regulatory guidance.

Working collaboratively with Network Planning & Regulation, Control Teams and wider business stakeholders, you will produce management information, cost and economic analysis, and support business planning activities. You will also assist in preparing presentations and reports for senior leadership, helping to communicate regulatory performance, commercial outcomes and key business challenges.

The role offers the opportunity to drive continuous improvement by enhancing processes, ensuring compliance with Regulatory Instructions & Guidance (RIGs) and Data Assurance Guidance (DAG) requirements, and delivering training and awareness programmes across the business. You will also support the production of commercial reporting and governance activities, playing a key role in strengthening SPT’s regulatory and commercial capability.

What You’ll Bring

• The successful candidate will have a relevant academic qualification (Accountancy/ Finance/ Economics) at degree level or equivalent. Consideration will also be given to high calibre candidates with relevant experience of financial reporting including SAP.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills.
• Experienced in preparing reports and presentations for senior management.
• Experienced in communicating objectives and delivering projects with multiple milestones.
• Numerically articulate with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to devise solutions to complex problems & challenges, involving consultation with others in the business, resolve differences and present a common agreed perspective.

What’s In It For You

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

Benefits

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously.

We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [e-mail].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

IMPORTANT

Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below. August-28-2026